honey pies

This is a tray of honey pies I made - actually honey tarts. People are always asking me if I make honey pie so here is the evidence! They are sort of like butter tarts but way better because they taste like honey. Here's the recipe:

Honey Pie

1 cup honey
3 large eggs beaten
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
zest of one lemon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 unbaked pie shell

-in a saucepan bring the honey to a boil
-quickly beat eggs into honey
-beat in rest of ingredients
-pour into pie shell
-bake at 325 degrees for 25 min. until center is set.

Many variations are possible including adding 1 cup of pecans or sprinkling coconut on top or fresh blueberries.......

busy hands

Here's a picture of our set up at Busy Hands. We took three of our five shelves. It was still lots of room.

catching a swarm

This is the video I took of my honey man catching a swarm of bees wearing only shorts and a T-shirt. That's my cousin Randy helping out. This was summer 2008.

Tomorrow we have our last craft sale of the year and it's in our hometown of Picton!  Vicki and I have been doing this sale for years and it's always a great time and well attended.  I drew the picture for this poster - copied from an old magazine cover I found once.  We took the green cabinets we made for the One of a Kind so they could have another outing.  They're too pretty to leave at home all the time.  I guess we'll have to get out our town clothes too so we don't look too shabby next to them.  Everything is set up and looks beautiful.  I'll post pictures soon.

Well, we survived the One of a Kind Show!  We did the first five days since it was our first time doing the Christmas show.  The whole show is eleven days and we'll definitely go for the whole show next year.  It was fun dressing up and taking our farm kitchen to the city.

We were at Vicki's Veggies heirloom tomato tasting this Sept. selling our wares and tasting all the beautiful tomatoes. The tomatoes were sliced on their own plates with sweet little name tags on signs. On our table - a nice display of the lavender honey. We always love the tomato tasting at Vicki's and have been selling our products there for several years. It's always on the Labour Day weekend.

We recently did a craft sale in Toronto at the CBC building. We had a really great time and were dressed up in our best going to town clothes. Rick Mercer was presiding over us in a slightly scary way.
People were loving our lavender honey. We put some hives on the Prince Edward County Lavender Farm this summer and the bees happily harvested nectar from the lavender blossoms. The honey has a light delicate flavour but doesn't taste like lavender.